Numerical Search for Periodic Solutions in the Vicinity of the Figure-Eight Orbit: Slaloming around Singularities on the Shape Sphere

Abstract

We present the results of a numerical search for periodic orbits with zero angular momentum in the Newtonian planar three-body problem with equal masses focused on a narrow search window bracketing the figure-eight initial conditions. We found eleven solutions that can be described as some power of the "figure-eight" solution in the sense of the topological classification method. One of these solutions, with the seventh power of the "figure-eight", is a choreography. We show numerical evidence of its stability.

14 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

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